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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Jackson, KY

April 28, 2002Powell County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2002, 12:32 PM EDT for Powell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 28, 2002, 12:32 PM EDT (16:32 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2002, 1:00 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Powell County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 28, 12:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 177 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 113 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -214 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1297 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 101 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 240 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

495 
WUUS53 KJKL 281632
SVRJKL
KYC197-281700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1231 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  POWELL COUNTY

* UNTIL 100 PM EDT

* AT 1231 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CLAY   
CITY...OR  OVER STANTON...MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH. DIME SIZE WAS 
REPORTED NEAR STANTON AROUND 12:25 PM.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT SUNDAY AFTERNOON
FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY.

IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL 
SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE 
LIKELY IN THE PATH OF THE STORM.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE JACKSON WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE.

LAT...LON 3788 8401 3779 8391 3774 8369 3791 8376

HAL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 6:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath	50 min
Apr 28, 6:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rowan	34 min
Apr 28, 7:18 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rockcastle	27 min
Apr 28, 7:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel	31 min
Apr 28, 7:38 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Laurel	52 min
Apr 28, 7:49 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Jackson	41 min
Apr 28, 8:04 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay	41 min
Apr 28, 8:29 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Leslie, Perry	46 min
Apr 28, 12:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Menifee, Wolfe	34 min
Apr 28, 12:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Morgan	30 min
Apr 28, 1:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Morgan	24 min
Apr 28, 1:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Magoffin	33 min
Apr 28, 1:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Johnson	27 min
Apr 28, 1:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Powell	36 min
Apr 28, 1:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, Pulaski, Wayne	48 min
Apr 28, 1:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rockcastle	44 min
Apr 28, 1:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Martin	35 min
Apr 28, 1:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Wolfe	39 min
Apr 28, 1:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	McCreary, Pulaski	33 min
Apr 28, 1:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Martin	41 min
Apr 28, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Magoffin, Morgan	35 min
Apr 28, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Whitley	45 min
Apr 28, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Knox	56 min
Apr 28, 2:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Johnson	31 min
Apr 28, 2:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt	26 min
Apr 28, 2:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knott, Perry	28 min
Apr 28, 2:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell	25 min
Apr 28, 2:35 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Owsley	25 min
Apr 28, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Harlan	28 min
Apr 28, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Pike	32 min
Apr 28, 3:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Martin	27 min
Apr 28, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	16 min
Apr 28, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rockcastle	27 min
Apr 28, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	McCreary	36 min
Apr 28, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel	30 min
Apr 28, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Lee	33 min
Apr 28, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Whitley	40 min
Apr 28, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pike	18 min
Apr 28, 6:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Martin	115 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.